Brunch at Marché

Marché is an interesting Swiss restaurant found at The Curve. Its mascot is a green cow and it features a 'market' where you can order food at various stalls and they will prepare it for you on the spot. Last Saturday, we arrived early for the two movies of the day (Frozen and Knight and Day) so we decided to have brunch here as most places weren't really open yet.

After receiving our 'passports' (you get them stamped for each order), we went right to it. For starters we had sautéed mushrooms. These Swiss button mushrooms were really... mushroomy. If you like mushrooms, you'll like this.



Adding to the mushroom fest was a mixed mushroom ragout. This was various types of mushroom in a creamy mushroom sauce (tasted a lot like a very thick mushroom cream soup). It was quite nice but not as flavourful as the sautéed mushrooms.




For a main course, I had grilled chicken breasts with mushroom sauce accompanied by a gourmet mushroom chicken sausage. The chicken was well seasoned and grilled nicely if a bit on the dry side. The sauce went well with it. The sausage was very tasty and had strong flavour. Both very good indeed.



Our second main course was a grilled whole chicken thigh with mushroom sauce and homemade mashed potato. The chicken was not bad, and not great. I've had better...



We had some sides too! First there's the mushroom soup. Sadly, it was quite disappointing. One of the poorer mushroom soups I've had in my lifelong sampling of mushroom-related foods. It was oddly creamy and oily like there was butter in it or something. Oh well...



We finally tried the rosti after having stared at it the last few times we came here. Strips of fried potato made  into a flat bread-like thing. Not bad, but a little plain. Perhaps we'll try other varieties next time.



Our drinks were ice blended hazelnut (lovely) and some sort of pineapple juice concoction (meh).



Last and certainly not least: dessert crepe! Made with hazelnut chocolate sauce on the inside, then wrapped around fresh strawberries. Vanilla ice cream and chocolate sprinkles complete the dish. It was excellent. Highly recommended.



On the whole, it was a pretty good meal. A word of advice when dining here: try not to order everything at once, however strong the temptation may be. It gets cold...